Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stalk that supports the pistil in certain plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, an elongation or internode of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynœcium, as the stipe of a pod in some Cruciferæ and Capparidaceæ.
- noun In Hydrozoa, the branch of a gonoblastidium which bears female gonophores, or those reproductive receptacles or generative buds which contain ova only, as distinguished from male gonophores or androphores. See cut under
gonoblastidium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
stalk of apistil
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle
Etymologies
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Examples
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An occurrence of this nature in _Tacsonia pinnatistipula_, in conjunction with the partial detachment of the stamens from the gynophore, led Karsten to establish a genus which he called
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In some varieties of the orange, called by the French "bigarades cornues," the thalamus of the flower, which is usually short, and terminated by a glandular ring-like disc, is prolonged into a little stalk or gynophore, bearing a ring of supernumerary carpels.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In those plants which present this deviation from the ordinary condition with the greatest frequency, it often happens that the axis is normally more or less prolonged, either between the various whorls of the flower, as in the case of the gynophore, &c., or into the cavity of the carpels, as in the instances of free central placentation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In ripening the parts separate, and hang divergent from a hair-like prolongation of the receptacle known as the gynophore.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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The pistil was unaffected in some cases, while in some others it was entirely wanting, the gynophore being surmounted by a cup-like involucre, divided into three acutely pointed lobes, each with a midrib; these encircled a series of stalked involucels, as before, and among which were scattered
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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All of the parts that are mention in the previous paragraph are placed above the lower section on a unique kind of stalk known as a gynophore.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Terra 2009
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All of the parts that are mention in the previous paragraph are placed above the lower section on a unique kind of stalk known as a gynophore.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Terra 2009
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All of the parts that are mention in the previous paragraph are placed above the lower section on a unique kind of stalk known as a gynophore.
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All of the parts that are mention in the previous paragraph are placed above the lower section on a unique kind of stalk known as a gynophore.
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All of the parts that are mention in the previous paragraph are placed above the lower section on a unique kind of stalk known as a gynophore.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Terra 2009
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